The Importance Of Being Online

November, 2006

New breeds of MMO take on World of WarcraftMassively multiplayer online (MMO) games are shared worlds where thousands of people can coexist and that don't pause when you turn off your machine. Until recently most MMOs were variations on tha breasts-and-broadswords model, the most dominant being the garganfl tuan World of Warcraft, which accounts for roughly half of all MMO plafl Lately, however, we've seen a sharp uptick in MMOs that have nothioS to do with ores, paladins or mystical amulets of...